The Shoshone and Paiute Natives watched as Spanish Traders brought horses to the Valley. American mountain men were early explorers who also passed through on their way to the southern settlements or back to Santa Fe and the United States.  It was the 49er gold and silver seekers that changed the valley forever, and a lost wagon train that sealed the identity of this odd expanse of land, so deadly dry it earned the name Death Valley.  

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